Evitable Human Error That Leads To Transplants from AIDS donor

This is probably one of the worst thing that could ever happen to a person, both from the recipients' and the donor's perspective. 


The striking incident arose from one of the most prestigious medical school in Taiwan: National Taiwan University Hospital. Due to bad communication between the examinator and the coordinator in NTUH, the surgeons from both NTUH and National Cheng Kong University Hospital accidently transplanted a few organs of a donor who was infected by AIDS into some  patients. Additionally, a few dozens of medical personnel were exposed to large volume of body fluid of the donor without proper protection. Currently, almost all the related personnel are undergoing preventive treatment in the hope to reduce the possibility of being infected. However, the chances of miracle for the recipients now seems rather low because of the tremendous number of AIDS viruses exchanged in the process of and after the transplants.

針對真愛聯盟的反思

This post relates to a recent debate in Taiwan so I'll write in Chinese.

因為七月初的時候很忙，所以一直到七月中吧？看到"真愛聯盟退出公聽會"的新聞才注意到這個事件，而最近看到的一些資訊又讓我有了點reflection。首先，我想要聲明我目前並沒有任何的信仰，在短時間內也不打算加入任何宗教團體，單純只是陳述我的看法。

Regional discrimination: College Students With Big Mouths And Shameful Mindset

    Recently on a popular talk show(an alternative term for garbage, IMO XD!) aimed at college students. They made a whole episode focusing on the difference between young females from northern and southern Taiwan. And the whole episode is filled with  discriminatory bias on the style, taste, accents... of southern young females, which provokes thousands of viewers from both northern and southern Taiwan. The existence of this kind of topic clearly reveals the arrogance and shameful mindset that many Northerners possess.

Start Reading a Few New Books and Some Unfin ones(2)

"The Pragmatic programmer: From Journeyman to Master" is the first book I've ever read in this category, namely software engineering, principles that programmers and managers should obey, etc. Currently I'm only at ch2 but I did learn something all the way up. Additionally, the book was written in a noncontiguous manner that each section is independent, so you can quickly skip to any topic.

Start Reading a Few New Books and Some Unfin ones(1)

    I started reading "Introduction to Algorithms" a few days ago and it turns out to be pretty interesting, especially when you don't need to cram stuff for exams in a brainless way! Despite that, by studying algorithms, I can be a better programmer/thinker instead of a translator from human languages to programming languages.

A Diary-like Series? Metaprogramming and Cython for ToDaY

    I'm planning on starting a diary-like series so my general writing skills can be improved. The main problem here is that I spent most of my summer time coding, reading books, exercising and sometimes have my wisdom tooth removed XD, so there might no topics that worth writing about. But I'll try my best to come up with something everyday or at least every other day.